Album Development: Wiz Khalifa's "Blacc Hollywood", Majid Jordan and More

Wiz Khalifa Reveals Blacc Hollywood Details

After over 5 months of teasing his upcoming new release, Wiz Khalifa has finally unveiled the deluxe and standard edition covers of his new album entitled Blacc Hollywood. Due for an August 19th release, Blacc Hollywood will be the sixth studio album for veteran rapper Khalifa, and his 3rd solo major label release. He previously launched his 2006 debut Show and Prove to critical acclaim as an indie rapper, his largely more successful Deal or No Deal (released on the same label, Rostrum Records, in 2009), his major label debut (2011's massive Rolling Papers), a collaboration soundtrack alongside Snoop Dogg (Mac and Devin Go to High School), and 2012's O.N.I.F.C, which also became a major success. 

Supported by its lead single "We Dem Boys", Blacc Hollywood is set to have one of the larger sales weeks this year, with a sales week above 100,000 copies being highly likely. See the regular and deluxe edition covers below. The standard shows Khalifa smoking a joint, while the deluxe shows Wiz rolling a joint that has been blurred out. See the track lists below.

Standard Edition

1. Hope (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

2. We Dem Boyz

3. Promises

4. KK (feat. Project Pat & Juicy J)

5. House In the Hills (feat. Curren$y)

6. Ass Drop

7. Raw

8. Stayin' Out All Night

9. The Sleeze

10. So High (feat. Ghost Loft)

11. Still Down (feat. Chevy Woods & Ty Dolla $ign)

12. No Gain

13. True Colors

Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks

14. We Dem Boyz (feat. ScHoolboy Q & Nas) [Remix]

15. You and Your Friends (feat. Snoop Dogg & Ty Dolla $ign)

16. We Dem Boyz (Video)

Majid Jordan's A Place Like This Leaks Ahead of Release

Just days before being releasing their major label debut EP, Canadian duo Majid Jordan (composed of Jordan Ullman and Majid Al Maskati) has unfortunately suffered a leak online. The five song A Place Like This EP reached the web before officially dropping on iTunes on its due release date. See the official track listing before and the video for its lead single, "A Place Like This".

Track listing

1. Forever

2. All I Do

3. Her

4. U

5. A Place Like This

Neon Jungle Promotes Debut Album With Song Samples
Neon Jungle has seen some ups and down with the promotion for their new album, but they've turned it around this time... by offering fee song samples of individual songs ahead of the album's July 28th release. To date, the album has offered up 4 top 20 singles. 4 previews have been released thus far at the rate of one every 2-3 days. See the track list below.

Standard Edition

1. Braveheart

2. Welcome to the Jungle

3. Trouble

4. Louder

5. Can't Stop the Love (feat. Snob Scrilla)

6. Bad Man

7. Sleepless In London

8. Waiting Game

9. So Alive

10. Fool Me

Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks

11. Future X Girl
12. London Rain
13. Fool Me (Acoustic)
14. Trouble (Line of Best Fit Sessions)
15. Take Me to the Church
16. Royals (Line of Best Fit Sessions)

Jessie Ware Reveals Album Cover For October's Tough Love

The title pretty much says it all. Jessie Ware has announced that her sophomore studio album will be released this October in the United Kingdom, with a worldwide expanded release expected just before the year's end. The new album will be titled Tough Love, and comes preceded by the release of the album's title track (and lead single) "Tough Love". The new single drops August 4th on the United Kingdom iTunes.

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That's it for this edition of a new feature called Album Development, where I dive into news about upcoming large releases. Keep it here for more updates!